#expectation

I am going to sit back. I am not waiting. Because waiting will mean expecting and that, will hurt. I am just sitting back looking at you. I am making sure that when it does happen, and whatever that may be, I will remember you. I will remember the way you smile, I will remember your eyes and the fine lines around them when you throw back your head and laugh, I will remember you hands, the fingers I held in mine even if for a fleeting moment. I will remember the way your hair kisses your forehead and how you walk. toward me, and away. ↗

— Geeta Masurekar

#kiss #love #waiting #walk #love

Keep your standards even when everyone around you is losing theirs. ↗

— Habeeb Akande

#ambition #dedication #desire #determination #drive

You can't base your life on other people's expectations. ↗

— Stevie Wonder

#expectations #life #other #people #you

When our hopes for performance are not completely met, realistic optimism involves accepting what cannot now be changed, rather than condemning or second-guessing ourselves. Focusing on the successful aspects of performance (even when the success is modest) promotes positive affect, reduces self-doubt, and helps to maintain motivation (e.g., McFarland & Ross, 1982).... Nevertheless, realistic optimism does not include or imply expectations that things will improve on their own. Wishful thinking of this sort typically has no reliable supporting evidence. Instead, the opportunity-seeking component of realistic optimism motivates efforts to improve future performances on the basis of what has been learned from past performances. ↗

— Sandra L. Schneider

#expectations #improvement #learning #optimism #performance

We're in a tightening cycle and the reason is the economy is growing, there's no expectation that the global economy and the Polish economy as a consequence could slow down dramatically. ↗

— Marek Belka

#could #cycle #down #dramatically #economy

When you make speeches you elicit expectations against which you will be held accountable. ↗

— Bill Bradley

#against #elicit #expectations #held #make

Never idealize others. They will never live up to your expectations. ↗

— Leo Buscaglia

#idealize #live #never #others #up

The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly. ↗

— Joan Chen

#being #between #came #difference #expectation

I felt trapped and fabricated in the fifties living up to other people's expectations. ↗

— Rosemary Clooney

#fabricated #felt #fifties #i #living

Look. I have a strategy. Why expect anything? If you don’t expect anything, you don’t get disappointed. ↗

— Patricia McCormick

#disappointment #expectations #hope #life #strategy